I was thinking yesterday about the recent immigration raids in this town.
Forty people were arrested Monday in connection with a money-laundering and immigration scheme, investigators said.While I'm sure this makes a bunch of folks gleefully happy, I'm pretty sure even 50 illegal workers arrested isn't really even a drop in the bucket.
Federal agents raided New Century Roofing in the 13300 block of Holmes Road, where many of the arrests were made, KMBC's Peggy Breit reported.
In fact, all of it kind of reminds me of the 30 year drug war this country has waged unsuccessfully. 30 years, billions spent and finding drugs in Kansas City really isn't any harder than it was a few decades ago if some of the old stoners who live in my neighborhood are any indication.
In fact, it's pretty clear that the massive government effort that a lot of folks want to make sure that nobody ever speaks Spanish at Burger King will only result in a lot more bureaucracy, just as many Mexicans and little progress . . . Sad thing is, I'm not completely convinced that illegal mojados are as dangerous as illicit drugs.
So that's why I'm asking you!
Already, the good folks who read this blog have decided that Mexicans are slightly less dangerous than Al Qaeda, and that's really encouraging. As always this week's poll is rigged so that you can can vote early and often. Please, vote as if a Latino guy was dating your daughter.
Additionally, I've never really considered Mexican immigrants that dangerous since it's not only clear that they bring down construction costs ALONG WITH PRICES (and wages) but also most of them are under 5'6 so it's not like they're presence is really threatening to anybody but shriveled up old white ladies who have failed to see their value in the local dating pool.
Furthermore, throughout the recent immigration debate there has been very little focus on the companies (all of them) and people (everyone) who benefits from low cost illegals, in much the same what that nobody likes to think about the Chinese toddlers who manufacture most of the goods sold at places like Wal-mart. But the truth is that EVEN THE U.S. ARMY REALLY WANTS TO RECRUIT UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS given that they're missing recruitment goals and service for citizenship is an idea that quickly silences the Pat Buchanan types who constantly imply that Latino immigrants are unpatriotic. Really, it's hard to castigate an entire group of people if so many of them are willing to fight and die for the right to mow lawns and wash dishes in peace. Also, this kind of tactic (Latino = Un-American) is a direct insult to so many Latinos who have served in this country's military recently and throughout the history of this nation.
Still, local anti-immigration fanatics (i.e. Darla Jaye) would have you believe that this is some kind of grand scheme on the part of "La Raza" in order to steal this nation's cheese rather than admit that this is a country that was built upon slave labor and has flourished by taking advantage of cheap labor. Illegal immigrant, Mexican soldiers (fighting for citizenship and whatever cause they're now using to justify the war in Iraq) . . . Nothing could be more American.
im hoping your mom was one of them that got picked up
ReplyDeleteYour Mama's so stupid she thought Taco Bell was a Mexican phone company.
ReplyDeleteWow how original...get back to your trailer park. :-)
ReplyDeleteI'm a veteran and I've served with many good folks of Hispanic decent. I understand what you're sayingg but I still don't think that illegals in the army is the best decision. If the military wants to increase recuitment numbers they could start by increasing the death benefit and providing better care to our veterans who come home injured.
ReplyDeleteLegal Hispanic Said:
ReplyDeleteI'm a prior service person, and while I can support the six year military commitment as an honorable way for children of illegals to "regularize" their presence in our country, most of the Mexicans I've run into who acquired their citizenship in 1986 still consider themselves Mexicans who did what they had to to be able to work and live here without being hassled.
That being said, illegal alien labor makes up 6% of U.S. labor force. Any statistician or economist will tell you that a 6% spike in the numbers of any equation will adversely affect the results. To give you an idea.... This was one single instance of one crooked anglo taking advantage of a criminal scheme called "illegal immigration tolerance" to the tune of more than six million dollars. How many roofing, siding, painting, basement csting, frame contruction, tree and lawn care contractors are out there who may be pushing the envelope of managerial criminal misconduct?
Tony thinks that laws are to be selectively obeyed.... That 's funny. That is what Charles Keating also thought.
50 illegals is nothing. 50 a day would be a good start.
ReplyDeleteIt's entertaining watching him flop on the line now that his thug momma and her La Raza cronies didn't get what she wanted.
ReplyDeleteThis musta been one of those 'no meds' mornings for him. He was relatively balanced yesterday.
11:53 has it right. It's time for more aggressive action.
ReplyDeleteI think we ought to just remove the border and the entire mexican government and then in a few years I'd own a beach cabin on the coast. Anyone who has crossed the border should ask WHY does poverty exist south of the border. Could it be the Padrons. Why not just have one continent with a lot of beach cabins on the Mexican coast.
ReplyDelete"most of the Mexicans I've run into who acquired their citizenship in 1986 still consider themselves Mexicans who did what they had to "
ReplyDeleteBullshit, nevertheless my Irish ,Greek, Italian, Mexican, Scottish, Punjab, English, Turkish, Paraguayan, and Argentinian relatives and their kids consider themselves proud Americans that proudly and respectively fly both flags while speaking more than one language and loving the USA no less than you and I. Welcome to America. That's been happening since the beginning. That's what makes this country great.
Legal Hispanic said:
ReplyDeletejp: I'm sure your neighbors think that your flag display may be a sign of a more deep-seated schizophrenic disturbance, than ethnic pride. The only flag that flies on my porch has 50 bright stars on it...
The majority of governments of the plethora of countries in your background don't do an outreach effort like the Mexicans do to ensure that their people who are U.S. citizens vote with Mexico's interests in mind. They've been so brazen as to actually state so. They even changed their laws recently to "include" those born here as Mexican citizens... I'm sure the money train of remittances had very little to do with that...
Gotta love the first ammendment... slanted idiocy, such as yours, is not only tolerated, but encouraged. In most of the countries you've mentioned, it could get you a looooong stretch in jail, and in others, you could find yourself dumped out of a flying aircraft into the sea...
Legal Hispanic:
ReplyDeleteI and all of my family members get along great with our neighbors and you can see it with the countless stories of neighbors coming to us for help on how to best handle neighborhood questions.
I would attribute the endless amount friendship to the fact that although you may have tunnel vision on your path to hiding your heritage,our neighbors know that there's no shortage of "50 bright stars" in our yards even while being proud of where some of us, our parents and grandparents came from.
In Kansas City neighborhoods filled with amazing 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation Irish, Italian, Germans,Greeks, Latinos, Polish and Scottish folks, they, like the sane majority of Americans (a category that you do not belong to) realize that America isn't about forcing people to hate, hide or forget their past, its about helping them continue to remember, cherish, and appreciate it so that you can help take this country that much further into the future. I am sure people like our friends at Browne's Irish Market and the Irish Parade Committee would agree.
Legal Hispanic Said:
ReplyDeleteHeh,heh,heh,heh... You amazing powers of perception seem to be disabled tonight. I was not inquiring as to your role in the neighborhood association, but the smorgasbord of flags, from YOUR "Irish ,Greek, Italian, Mexican, Scottish, Punjab, English, Turkish, Paraguayan, and Argentinian relatives and their kids", that would have rendered your porch into a veritable cartoon of multiethnicity. Or a field office of the UN. Ha,ha,ha,ha....
Sweetie; I believe the term "Legal Hispanic" may be a bit arcane for a mind as agile as yours, so I'll break it down into pieces your intellect may be able to stomach. I'm a Hispanic who is here legally. My "abuelos" came from a little town in their country. I come from a city in my country. Beyond that, unlike the etnic pimps who see a need to be something other than what they are and despise their current country so much that they must be something else, I tend to look forward and not back. Fear is not part of the indignation that many Americans feel as foreigners foist their unwarranted presence upon our communities. My heritage is part of my present, but my present is American. I don't hide or forget my past. In this town, you have to be careful or you may end up the victim of a hatchet job similar to the one Frances Semler is enduring at the hands of those who resent that she objects the lawlessness implied in illegal immigration and the ignorant who will jump onto any wagon of public opinion without checking to see if it is full of manure? Just color me "careful".
I believe the Irish came prior to the 1924 law that first instituted the term illegal alien into immigration statutes. Also, the Irish famine may have been a product of a British policy to rid themselves of irish population... Just like current Mexican policies appear to beaimed at jetisoning their responsibilities to their citizens squarely onto the pencil-thin necks of the American taxpayer.
Acording to Robert Rector, and based on the ultraconservative figure of twelve million illegals, the current amnesty bill would cost the nation 2.6 TRILLION dollars. If we go with a more realistic estimate from the Wall-street firm of Bear & Stearns of 20 million illegals as of december of 2005 (now more like 22 to 23 million), the burden soars into figures which will guarantee that this country will not go too much farther into the future... There is another estimate of 30,000,000 illegals which may be a bit too high, but I hope you get the idea that illegal immigration is a loser for the American taxpayer and only supports those like the crooked roofing contractor who laundered more than six million dollars in illegal alien wages which could have gone to American laborers of "Irish ,Greek, Italian, Mexican, Scottish, Punjab, English, Turkish, Paraguayan, or Argentinian" descent and provided for their relatives and kids.
Tony My Love....you know I love to read your blog, even when you clearly MIS-REPRESENT me!(fanatic?
ReplyDeleteI am not anti IMMIGRANT. I am anti AMNESTY for illegal immigrants.
I would venture to guess, that most people feel the way that I do.
Being anti-amnesty does not make one a fanatic, a racist, a xenophobe, or any other term pro- illegal immigrant forces love to toss about.
Just wanted to clear that up. Still love you Tony(most of the time)
Darla Jaye
"Your amazing powers of perception"? I just talked about my neighbors. You have security issues. Maybe it is because you are lost now that both Latinos, and us Gringos are saying that you need help.
ReplyDeleteLegal Hispanic Said:
ReplyDeletejp:
As I said. I refered to the appearance your porch would have. I can't help it that you lack common sense.
You certainly don't appear to be a typical gringo, but more of an open-borders type who leads with his concern for those who are not Americans, and devil may care about the citizens who are damaged by your wayward logic.
It is nimrods of such quality as yours that provide a humorous pause in the day.
Legal Hispanic:
ReplyDeleteYour self hatred reeks! Get a life. You don't know what you are writing about half the time and your arguments are flimsy when it looks like you might be onto something.
Nobody likes you and your momma dresses you funny, so there. Now go back to whatever rock you crawled out from under. It time for your siesta.
Exactly 3:40pm
ReplyDeleteSinclair Lewis once said
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.".. and under the alias of Legal Hispanic.
Legal Hispanic Said:
ReplyDeletejp:
You give me way too much credit. But, to charlatans, the truth may be a fearful sight.
Anonymous:
Is that all you've got? You may be measuring others with the same rod used on you. Just because few people liek you cross dress, does not mean they "dress funny". The fact that the vantage point advocated by me has resonance with the majority of the population, while the nonsense you kids advocate doesn't, must be a gaping sore on the ego of the pandering few, the haughty, the self-serving etnocentric shock troops. Let's not forget that there is whole vinyard of sour grapes of who saw their mayoral candidate fall short at the polls. How sad it must be that you've sunk to the speech of a five year old child.
Boy, you guys are a hoot. I didn't know that stimulating other people's idiocy and baser instincts would be quite this hilarious. You boys have decided to roll out the heavy artillery of historical quotes to give legitimacy to the flim-flam of dishonest and mendacious demagoguery, so be it. here's my volley:
Napoleon Bonaparte once said:
"Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress."
Judge Louis D. Brandeis once wrote: "The government is the potent omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that the end justifies the means -- to declare that the government may commit crimes -- would bring terrible retribution."
Frances Semler should find solace in the writings of Buddha: "Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good."
Rita, "Ugly Bethy" and the COHO Cabal of illegal alien sanctuary panderers should take to heart the words of Marcus Tulio Cicero: "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear." And those of Charles Caleb Colton: "The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal" Such is the realm of hypocrites.
Their's is an argument that has resulted in the infiltrarion of anywhere from twelve to thirty million illegal aliens into our communities. More than 5% of our labor force is illegal.
I believe that cassock fits the COHO pious lynch mob and our sates and municipalities who have become eager accomplices of the cheap labor lobby who happen to give money to immigrant aid organizations.
Those quoted were wise men indeed. I don't claim to be wise; just wiser than present company.
Must be awful to have to cross wits with someone who trashes your arguments so effortlessly.
Go home and bring your "A game".
Legal Hispanic, you sure have a hatred for immigrants. What is it that you do again for a living? hahaha
ReplyDeleteLegal Hispanic said:
ReplyDelete10:24; yo certainly are shooting blanks again...
Do you think I'm going to give you anything to place myself in a "Semler's ordeal"? You certainly must be dumber than you seem.
It is indeed probable that more harm and misery have been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil.
-Frederich August Von Hayek
11:11pm sounds like a fake
ReplyDeleteLegal Hispanic said:
ReplyDeleteYou guys will try anything to disqualify anyone who does not subscribe to your hive mentality...
I find that endearingly amusing.
If you think its a fake, blow it.
Legal Hispanic Said:
ReplyDeleteHere's an unbiased viewpoint from today's Washington Times.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070620/COMMENTARY/106200008/1012/commentary
Importing poverty
William Hawkins
June 20, 2007
The argument that illegal aliens have been needed to fill a labor shortage in the U.S. economy is not supported by the facts.
According to the Census Bureau, 14.3 percent of illegals work in manufacturing. Yet, manufacturing has lost more than 2 million jobs since 2000, with more jobs lost every month.
Hordes of American citizens would love to regain factory employment, as they have not been able to find comparably rewarding jobs elsewhere; but illegals have been hired in their place. Most illegals are in the low-end of the labor pool, where unemployment is higher than average and wages are declining, the opposite of what would happen in a market with a shortage. Even in the economy as a whole, real wages for 93 million nonsupervisory, private sector workers fell again in April.
Those in the business community who support immigration "reform" do so to further swell the number of available workers to generate a labor surplus that will keep wages in check. But such a course is not in the long-term best interests of most business owners any more than it is for Americans in general.
Firms that hire "cheap" illegal workers do so to gain a competitive advantage against firms that obey the law. Honest business owners are placed in the difficult position of having to choose between emulating the unlawful behavior of rivals or risking the loss of contracts to them. A system that creates this kind of ethical dilemma should not be "regularized" into law.
There is, however, no such thing as "cheap" labor in an advanced society like ours. The higher costs for health, education and welfare, not to mention crime control, from a large increase in the number of people living in poverty is substantial. This financial pressure is already undermining state and local governments, school systems and hospitals.
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation concluded that the Senate amnesty bill "would be the largest expansion of the welfare state in 35 years." His research shows "the U.S. has imported poverty through immigration policies that permitted and encouraged the entry and residence of millions of low-skill immigrants." He puts the annual cost to taxpayers at $89 billion, which will increase sharply if more illegal aliens become eligible for aid under an amnesty.
Taxpayers end up subsidizing employers who hire low wage workers. While it is sometimes useful to subsidize programs such as scientific research, defense capabilities or public works, it is hard to see how restaurants, janitorial services or landscapers qualify as strategic industries. If people want extra services for their private enjoyment, from blueberries to theme parks, they should be willing to pay the full cost and not dump part of the burden on others.
The country does not advance by substituting "cheap labor" for technological progress. A study at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia by economist Ethan Lewis found "plants in areas experiencing faster less-skilled relative labor supply growth adopted automation technology more slowly, both overall and relative to expectations, and even de-adoption was not uncommon."
De-adoption of technology? There is no way to put a positive spin on that. Yet, Mr. Evans argues "Producers may anticipate future flows of less skilled immigrants by adopting less technology." New advances are called "labor-saving devices" for a reason.
Shortsighted decisions can undermine the long-term advancement of economic prosperity and national capabilities. Japan, with a very restrictive immigration policy and a static population, has plentiful capital and leads the world in robotics. In contrast, the most destitute places on the planet are awash in cheap labor. It is not the number of workers, but their productivity that determines living standards. The great achievement of America is to have elevated the working class to the middle class through innovation and investment.
The Senate proposal includes a guest workers program that is supposed to give preferences to those with more skills and work experience, but will it improve immigration or just continue the same dangerous pattern?
In a May 30 editorial, the Wall Street Journal protested the Senate vote "to halve the size of a guest-worker program for low-skilled workers." On June 6, the Senate voted to sunset the program in five years. If future guest workers are no more literate or productive than what has come in illegally, the program should not even last that long.
Importing poverty is also risky politically for broader business interests. The Service Employee International Union, which has expanded rapidly by recruiting low-wage immigrants, hailed last November's election results, claiming "By voting to change the leadership of Congress, and electing eight new pro-worker [i.e. Democratic] governors. ... more progressive voices were heard." Higher income taxes to finance social programs on a redistributive basis are at the top of SEIU's agenda.
Business stands to lose more in the long run from slower real economic growth and higher taxes, than from the deceptive, short-term gains from lower labor costs.
William Hawkins is senior fellow at the U.S. Business and Industry Council in Washington, D.C.
Huerito! you seem to forget your people stole "our country" from us. The Apache and Mexicans were here first. This makes you immigrants. The Mexican and Indian fight in the Whiteman's war, as I did in NAM, because we fight for "our country!" On the back of my pickup (Indian Poney)it says "AMERICA! LOVE IT OR GIVE IT BACK!" With Geronimo
ReplyDeletes picture and carbine next to the messager It is only a small percentage of Hueros that feel insecure about themselves which helps inflate their ego when they speak bad about our people. Speak to the Benefields, Wilsons,Walkers, Hughes,Knotts, Driscolls, Shaws, Momitas, Samras, McMahans, O'Learys, Havens, Spores, Harris, Friers, about Mexicans. These are the understanding whites we grew up with and played with as kids. These are the ones that use to come over and eat our mother's hot tortillas with butter. Do you know who, besides the MINUTE MEN, come from the East cost? The American Nazis. If Mexicans such as I are ignorant it is because I was educated in the Whiteman's School. Hasta la vista, Nino!"